Birs
The Birs is a 73-kilometre long river in Switzerland that flows through the Jura region and ends as a tributary to the Rhine between Basel and Birsfelden. It is the most important river of the Swiss Jura.Photo: Gestumblindi, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Museum Tinguely and Stadion Rankhof.
Museum Tinguely
Museum
Photo: Alan Philip Müller, CC BY 2.0.
The Museum Tinguely is an art museum in Basel, Switzerland, dedicated to the work of Swiss painter and sculptor Jean Tinguely. Designed by architect Mario Botta, it opened in 1996 on the banks of the Rhine.
Stadion Rankhof
Stadium
Photo: Johsin18, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Stadion Rankhof is a football stadium in Basel, Switzerland. It has a capacity of 7,600 with 1,000 seats and 6,600 standing places. The record attendance of the original stadium was about 30,000 spectators.
St. Jakob-Park
Stadium
Photo: Chrisixx, CC BY-SA 4.0.
St. Jakob-Park is a Swiss sports stadium in Basel. It is the largest football venue in Switzerland and home to FC Basel. "Joggeli", as the venue is nicknamed by the locals, was originally built with a capacity of 33,433 seats.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Birsfelden and Bäumlihof.
Birsfelden
Town
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Birsfelden is a municipality in the district of Arlesheim in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.
Birs
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Switzerland
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Venetian—“Birs” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ríu Birs”
- Belarusian: “Бірс”
- Bulgarian: “Бирс”
- Catalan: “Birs”
- Cebuano: “Birs”
- Chinese: “比尔斯河”
- Chinese: “比爾斯河”
- Dutch: “Birs”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر بيرس”
- Esperanto: “Birs”
- Finnish: “Birs”
- French: “Birse”
- Galician: “Birs”
- German: “Birs”
- Hebrew: “בירס”
- Irish: “Birs”
- Italian: “Birs”
- Italian: “Birsa”
- Korean: “비르스강”
- Latin: “Birsa”
- Luxembourgish: “Birs”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Birs”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Birs”
- Norwegian: “Birs”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Birs”
- Polish: “Birs”
- Romanian: “Birs”
- Russian: “Бирс”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Birs”
- Slovenian: “Birs”
- Spanish: “Birs”
- Spanish: “Río Birs”
- Swedish: “Birs”
- Swiss German: “Birs”
- Tosk Albanian: “Birs”
- Ukrainian: “Бірс”
- Venetian: “Fiume Birs”
- “Birs”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Birsfelden power station and St. Clara Hospital.
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